look I am generally cautious about applying the language of martyrdom to contemporary events before all the facts are known, but everything that has come out in the last few days makes me feel only more comfortable using that language for what happened to Renee Good

okay so the cool thing about (co-)editing a book is that when the book is awesome it's okay for you to talk about how awesome the book is because it's mostly stuff other people wrote and you just get to attach your name to the thing anyway I think this book is really awesome and I hope ppl like it

"And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

My friends made a book and I helped, now you can buy it: churchpublishing.org/products/978...

Simple amendments that IMO would have a decent chance of getting ratified:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

and serve you forever in holiness and righteousness of life, to your honor and glory, through our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ⚓️

We humbly ask, O Father, that you would look with mercy on our weakness; and, for the glory of your name, turn away from us all evils - even those we justly deserve. And grant that, in our troubles, we may put our whole trust and confidence in your mercy,

Behold with pity the sorrows of our hearts; Mercifully forgive the sins of your people. Favorably with mercy hear our prayers; O Son of David, have mercy on us. Hear our prayers now and evermore, O Christ; Graciously hear us O Christ; graciously hear us, O Lord Christ.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. O Lord, arise and help us, And deliver us for your name’s sake. From our enemies defend us, O Christ. Graciously behold our afflictions.

O Lord, arise and help us, And deliver us for your name’s sake. O God, we have heard with our ears, and our ancestors have declared unto us, the noble works that you did in their days, and in the ancient times before them. O Lord, arise and help us, And deliver us for your name’s sake.

they suck, imo

There's never a bad time to take a Stop the Bleed course. The one I took at a local fire department here in Connecticut also included hands-only CPR and naloxone training. cms.bleedingcontrol.org/class/search

reminder: “hide post for me” is very good for you

Now, justice on the doers!

read theory

Yeah. Training doesn’t matter if there are no consequences to breaking the rules. Police have qualified immunity, and ICE thugs even less incentive to behave. The problem is not that they don’t know the rules. The problem is that they don’t give a shit and will never be punished.

how are those of us who don’t want to see any more pictures of the inside of that car supposed to avoid it, exactly

I can’t bear this

This is 1980s El Salvador language.

"...an informed Christian conscience must recoil at the means by which federal officers are currently enforcing the policies and orders of the executive branch, and the conditions under which most detainees are being held..."

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

If ICE gets away with a murder, then they will get away with a lot of murders.

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

Some folks very confidently saying today's shooting in Minneapolis will dampen protests against ICE. I would not be confident of that.

With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.

genuinely deeply embarrassed for the living church re: this one

I will take a movie or tv show, thank you www.them.us/story/usa-ca...

“We live in a world, in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time” is probably going to end up in the sermon right next to this:

went to tuesday evening Extreme Beginner Yoga of Death tonight and it felt so so good while I was doing it but now I am tylenol+flexeril+heating pad

y'all amy grant is so good

The Americans and it isn't close

A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.

Abortions will remain legal in Wyoming. The state’s supreme court ruled Jan. 6 that two near-total abortion bans are unconstitutional. (via @wyomingpublicmedia.bsky.social)

(homoousios)

getting some super super helpful clarification on the Article X revision and accompanying canonical changes from Ruth Meyers here at LiturgyConferenceForLiturgyNerds Very optimistic about all this for GC 2027 ⚓

"Unless"? Yes, unless. What's an unless? Just a faraway word, just a faraway thought A thought? About what? About something I ought? Well... A thought about something that *somebody* ought…

trying to get a room full of people with doctorates to vote for something electronically by scanning a QR code is the funniest thing in the whole world

Y’all did I post about how I put my phone in greyscale last week and it has been a game changer for my phone use

Just to be clear: mainstream Christian teaching does not in fact require or support anti-trans conversion therapy. “Mainstream Christian teaching” has a few points of general consensus but holy shit is sexual ethics not one of them.

have been having back pain since Thursday and this is, I would say, for the birds

Unironically, wouldn’t it be better to force a vote *authorizing* use of force, knowing they cant get sixty for it, than to force a vote “blocking” something that requires active authorization, failing to get sixty, and letting it look like congress approve?

The Episcopal Church includes the diocese of Venezuela and has this to say: ⚓️ www.episcopalchurch.org/ogr/episcopa...

NEW: At least 40 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians, local official says - NYT

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Confess the faith of Christ crucified, proclaim his resurrection, and share with us in his eternal priesthood.